Sentences with phrase «greater access to the courts»

There are a number of nonspending items tied to the budget, including the Child Victims Act, to give victims of childhood sexual abuse greater access to the courts, and the Dream Act, which would qualify children of undocumented immigrants for college aid.
Within precedential and statutory boundaries, Gorsuch's broad view — regardless of the position the plaintiffs are advancing — allows greater access to the courts.
This video provides an overview of the Tennessee Supreme Court's Justice for All Initiative, an effort to improve greater access to the courts in civil legal matters.
Hybrid or discounted conditional fee agreements (CFAs) have worked well over the past ten years affording greater access to the courts for those less able to afford to enforce their rights in the courts.»
At the same time, the online option provides the public greater access to the court by using Matterhorn.
Ensuring that Canadians have greater access to the courts is a major concern for Ecojustice.

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The chain has been opening new stores and aggressively courting male consumers, giving it greater access to new markets and millions of additional customers.
«But I think it's great advocacy to love people, because then you get access to every court you want.»
With free access to the courts during your stay AND the ability to borrow equipment from the sport centre, Fern Resort is a great place for families to try new activities for the first time!
The Tory plans to repeal the HRA, together with the restricted access to our courts already brought about by the restriction on judicial review introduced by Gove's predecessor, Chris Grayling, will silence the vulnerable and leave great swaths of executive action unchecked and unaccountable.
While critics on both sides of the two - year court battle made statements concerning the access to digital editions of the titles that did have merit, the greater good has been achieved by the ruling as it pertains to readers with print disabilities.
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Greater results seem likely with more minor (and cost free or relatively free steps) such as: remove restrictions on the access to non-secret government documents (court decisions etc.), and allow anyone who wants to operate an ISP to do so.
One final remark that arises from this case, is that although the Court is willing to use Article 47 CFR to provide greater access to justice before national courts, its approach towards standing in direct actions by individuals on the basis of Article 263 (4) TFEU appears to remain rather conservative, regardless of the inclusion of the Charter since Lisbon.
I clicked on the «Settled Principles» tab to find 30 well - settled principles for public records, such as this statement from a California appellate decision, «[I] t is well established that the media has no greater right of access to public records than the general public,» and this from a Florida court, «It is well - settled that public records and reports or business records are admissible as an exception to the hearsay rule provided they are authenticated by a custodian.»
I would like to see equal access to effective legal representation, greater resources for family law courts which are overburdened and greater civility and cooperation among lawyers.
[I] n light of advances in technology allowing greater access to information that can inform a trial court about the past litigation history of venire members, it is appropriate to place a greater burden on the parties to bring such matters to the court's attention at an earlier stage.
He said there was little point «in having a good court system, likely to produce fair results in accordance with law, if a great many people find it difficult or even impossible to access that system for practical reasons».
The Court relied heavily on statements made by the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport prior to amending the OLA in 2016 to the effect that the new provisions would offer greater protection to landowners who allow access to trails on their land.
A2J Author ® is a software tool developed in the U.S. that delivers greater access to justice for self - represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors from the courts, clerk's offices, legal services programs, and website editors to rapidly build and implement customer friendly web - based interfaces for document assembly.
«A2J Author is a software tool that delivers greater access to justice for self - represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors from the courts, clerk's offices, legal services programs, and website editors rapidly to build and implement customer friendly web - based interfaces for document assembly.
In the meantime, companies that were transferring data to the US under the Safe Harbour (including all Internet Giants) have to find creative solutions to meet the CJEU criteria as the use of the alternative instruments foreseen by the Data Protection Directive (contracts, binding corporate rules) is exposed to similar criticism from national courts, or at least to greater scrutiny from DPAs with regard to the mechanisms of protection installed to prevent (disproportionate) access to the data by US law enforcement authorities.
Furthermore, in terms of access to justice, the fairly stringent leave conditions under the Supreme Court Act 2003, are a greater barrier to bringing forward an appeal (at least in a civil case) than was the case with the Privy Council where disputes that involved a monetary amount of $ 5,000 or more could be brought as of right.
Nicole Bradick: Yeah, so I do think it's great that there's so much focus right now on access to justice technology, but the people who are doing the really hard work are the people who are out there sort of pushing for a systemic change and trying to make changes to court rules or processes.
Secondly, and of even greater importance, the Tribunal considered whether the Commission's procedures, and its management of confidential information, require modification in light of recent decisions of the Supreme Court on closed procedures and the approach taken in EU law (the principle of «access to the file»).
If it were not, the great volume of literature that has been written about this «access to justice» problem since 2007 would not have been published, and the disturbingly high and increasing percentages of unrepresented litigants whom judges are warning are clogging their courts, would not be happening.»
This case will also be watched by those in the copyright community in the educational system, since Access Copyright («AC») has recently increased the volume of its sabre rattling in the fallout from its great defeat on fair dealing in the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, and the resulting hit on its revenues with much more decline to follow.
As reported in legalfutures, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton, said «[the online court] should be seen as a template for securing now and over time in the future the critical object of greater access to justice.
In a lecture, the Master of the Rolls, Sir Terence Etherton said that the «online solutions court should be seen as a template for securing now and over time in the future the critical object of greater access to justice.»
The public and the press are justified in wanting greater access to and understanding of the process as well as the result of proceedings in the family courts, so the judge should strive for a controlled degree of publicity, and must satisfy himself as a result of the balancing exercise that the interests of the child outweigh the public interest in publicity.
«By a 3:2 majority, the Supreme Court judges reaffirmed the previous line of authorities which provide greater access to justice through the English courts for English domiciled claimants who are seriously injured in a non-EU Member State.
Olswang partner, Dan Tench, who acted for the newspapers, says: «The judge noted that the public interest in judicial review proceedings was if anything greater than that in private law proceedings and that there was no good reason to deny the same degree of public access to the key court documents.»
Malamud claims one of the reasons he is pursuing greater public access to court records is because «there are also massive privacy violations lurking inside some court filings, since clerks, judges and lawyers aren't adhering to rules about what can and can't be in legal filings.»
Litigation funding has been endorsed by the Jersey Courts as a means of providing access to justice and various case - law has cleared the way for the greater use of litigation funding in this jurisdiction.
Supported by both the Government and the Judiciary of England and Wales, the motivation behind online courts is to provide greater access to justice at lower cost than the conventional court system.
In this regard, as well as with the new website which Lady Hale also praises, the Supreme Court has set a great example of access to justice in action.
A2J Author ® is a software tool that delivers greater access to justice for self - represented litigants by enabling non-technical authors from the courts, legal services programs, and law schools to rapidly build and implement customer friendly web - based interfaces for document assembly.
Finally, the paper calls for a greater commitment from the Supreme Court of Canada to facilitate access to justice.
Far more is needed to facilitate electronic serving and filing of court documents and for obtaining greater access to individual court dockets.
In late June, Manitoba Courts issued a news release and held a press conference outlining the actions they are taking to achieve greater access to justice.
In specifically approving the access policy adopted by the Law Society of Upper Canada's Great Library, the court recognized the importance of institutional policies seeking to make the fairness factors operational.
And while the lawyers at Lee & Associates spend a great deal of time outside of the office, going to court, participating in mediation, examinations for discovery, pre-trials and other litigation procedures, they have access to their emails offsite and try to respond promptly.
Justice Karakatsanis, writing for a unanimous court, commenced her analysis by stating: «Ensuring access to justice is the greatest challenge to the rule of law in Canada today.»
Susskind noted various online dispute resolutions already in place around the world that provide greater access to justice by obviating the need for costly counsel; compressing the time for resolving disputes; providing online access; and reducing court administration costs.
His recommendations, which he believed would improve the ordinary citizen's access to justice, included the introduction of simpler unified rules, more court control, free advice for litigants in person and greater use of information technology.
The trend is for indigenous communities to gain even greater access to own - source revenues as Canadian courts continue to render decisions that effectively require resource and energy companies to partner in their traditional territories.
Arguably, instead of alleviating the alleged chill on free expression, Bill 83, if passed, will disturb the current balance between the right to protect ones reputation and freedom of expression, will restrict access to the courts and will result in increased litigation, numerous and costly motions and appeals, and create greater delay in getting to trial, in what is already an overburdened judicial system.
Often, such bodies are created to provide greater and more efficient access to justice through less formal procedures and specialized decision - makers that may not have legal training,» the court stated.
Finally, LexisNexis now provides greater access to trial court content, including trial court orders, briefs, and motions.
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